Good or Bad Cop Stories? Post them here.

[smartvoter]

I've got both:

Bad:
When I was a teenager, I had an argument with my girlfriend and went out for a drive late on New Years Eve. I did a U-turn too close to an intersection and was pulled over. The deputy was clearly disappointed I wasn't a "drunk catch" late at night and asked what I was doing out. I told him I went for a drive. He asked why so late. I told him I had an argument with my girlfriend. He asked what about. I said it's personal and none of his business. He asked me if I wanted to go to jail. I asked on what grounds. "For whatever I say you did."

Bad:
I was driving on Holloman AFB along a barren road and was pulled over by an MP for speeding (learned the speed limit was 25 on the entire place). I reached into the glove box to pull out my insurance card and stepped out, to have the MP absolutely freak out and make me lay in the dirt while he put the barrel of his gun to my head and searched me. He later told me to "never" open a car door if I'm pulled over on a military base.

Bad:
A few months back, I was ordering food from a burrito cafe and saw a table of cops being served. A young Hispanic kid was serving them and couldn't carry all their sides at once. The cop who had to wait started asking what the problem was and basically terrified the kid, which all of his friends thought was hysterical while they told him to calm down. The entire place was disgusted by the way they behaved.

Good:
My neighbor freaked out a few years back and took his wife and kids hostage with a gun. A SWAT team came into our house, had us all lay on the ground to avoid being hit by bullets penetrating the walls, and they used our house as a staging area. They were polite to us and our kids and even though they clearly could have taken the man out, they talked him down and ended it peacefully.

Several Goods:
On several occasions when I was pulled over for this or that, they were always polite, and on a couple of occasions I was not ticketed.

[LaurenG]

1. Both here too

Good:
Got pulled over for doing 78 in a 60 got a warning!

Bad:
Married to a cop for 20 years, in Texas no less. (divorced now)
You just don't want to know how many people went to jail on false info (LIES). Freaked me out when I found out about it. They would put unruly prisoners in the trunk of the car, DUI themselves all the time, plant evidence/weapons. nuff said huh.

[smartvoter]

4. Well, that'll give you faith in our finest... nt

[Xipe Totec]

2. Squirrel Cop

Funniest cop story I have ever heard. (Real Audio required).

http://redjar.org/radio/tal/squirrel_cop/

(on edit, squirrel cop is at the 19 minute time mark)

[Jade Fox]

3. Many years ago....

Bad:

In the middle of the night a homeless man ran up some stairs and on to
the balcony of my apartment. The cops called me to ask if I would testify
in court about the case. When I got to court it turned out they expected
me to press charges against this guy (whom I had not even seen), and go
along with this trumped up case against him. When I questioned the
cop trying to sell this plan to me as to what evidence they had against
the homeless man, it turned out to be nothing. He had been wandering
around in the middle of the night, and started running when they
approached him. When I said that didn't sound like much of an offense,
the cop said something about finding a gun around where the man had
been. I asked it the man's fingerprints where on the gun, and the cop said
well, no. Then the cop tried to imply the man was a rapist. Again, I ask
if the man had any history of sexual assault, and the cop again said, well no.

The Prosecutor, who was listening to the exchange between me and the
cop, finally decided to drop the whole thing. What amazed me was that she
let this cop talk her in to pursuing it in the first place. The manipulativeness
of the cop stunned and disgusted me. He seemed to think I was some young,
dumb thing who would do whatever he told me to. It seemed to me he had
a personal vendetta against this homeless man. I think the gun story was
a flat out lie, as was the whole "rapist" angle.